Improvement in envelopes



WY B. KEIGHTON. Envelope.

No. 205,869. Patented July 9,1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WVALTER B. KEIGHTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ENVELOPES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,869, dated July 9, 1878; application filed November 2, 1877.

.To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER B. KnIenToN, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Modes of Making Paper Bags or Envelopes, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of envelopes which are provided with a series of pockets or receptacles for containing an assortment of seeds, or of other articles of different character or grades, an example of this kind of envelope being illustrated in English Patent No. 364 of 1862; and the object of my invention is to produce a cheap and economical envelope of this character.

In carrying out my invention I make of paper a blank substantially like that shown in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, and gum it at the points shown by shading lines.

The vertical patches a, of adhesive material, are arranged at distances apart to be determined by the desired width of the pockets. These patches of gum, as well as the horizontal patch b on the upper edge of the blank,

may be readily applied simultaneously by an ordinary printing-press through the medium of an appropriate block. After the strip has been thus gummed it is folded on the line a: w, and the fold B is pressed against the body A of the envelope, and adheres to the same where the vertical patches of gum occur.

It will be understood that the vertical patches of adhesive material may, if desired, be applied to the lower portion B of the blank.

The strip will now be in the condition shown in Fig. 2, and will present a series of pockets or receptacles, m, in which may be deposited an assortment of seeds or of other articlesan assortment of fish-hooks, for instance. After this the upper portion of the strip is turned down on the line y y, thus forming a flap to be gummed to the lower fold, thereby inclosing the contents of the pockets, after which the strip may be folded or rolled up into a convenient package.

It should be understood that the strip, prior to being gummed and folded, should be so printed that there shall be on the exterior of each pocket the name of its contents, or such characters as may designate the grade of the contents, the strip having such other printed matter as the contents of the pockets and other circumstances may suggest.

It will be observed that the lower edge of the fold B of the blank is so waved that when the blank is folded the front of each pocket will be rounded at the upper edge; but this, of course, is not essential to my invention.

Another plan of carrying out my invention is shown in Figs. 3 and 4. In this case there are two strips, G and H, either of which is gummed, as described above, and has an additional streak, h, of gum at its lower edge, one strip being simply placed on and pressed to the other.

I do not desire to claim, broadly, an envelope provided with a series of pockets; but

1 claim as my invention As a new article of manufacture, the within-described envelope, havinga series of pockets, the said envelope being formed of strips or folds of paper united at the ends and lower edge, and by streaks of gum at suitable intervals throughout the length of the strip, all substantially as described.

In testimonywhereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER B. KEIGHTON.

Witnesses:

RICHARD L. GARDINER, HARRY SMITH. 

